Any '16 VT recruits worth trying to flip now that Beamer is leaving?

[pittpitt]

Now that Beamer is officially hanging it up at the end of this season, I have to think it's open season on VT's 2016 recruits, especially for someone as aggressive in recruiting as Narduzzi. I don't know how close Pitt is to any of these guys, but I see most of their verbals are from within Virginia, so I gotta think they'd all be hard to flip. All but 2 of the rest are from south of VA (2 each from NC, SC, GA, & 1 from FL). Here are the other 2:

3* QB Joshua Jackson (Michigan) -- We have a great & local QB recruit already, so we don't care about Jackson.
3* CB Myles Wolfolk (MD, near DC) -- He's 6-1, 180 (Narduzzi likes tall DB's, and Wolfolk is 2 inches taller than three of our starting DB's and 4 inches taller than the other), also offered by Clemson, BC, Illinois, SMU, etc.

There is one 4* among the verbals, and he's from Florida where we have some recruiting ties, and he just happens to be a CB:

4* CB Khalil Ladler (Florida), I see Pitt offered him (along with Alabama, Texas, etc.) 247 was predicting him to go to either VT or a big-name southern school (Miami, FSU, Georgia, or LSU). I'm guessing we have no shot with him.

If you're curious about their verbals along the OL since we could probably use another 1 there, they have two but both are 2*. If you're curious about their WR verbals since we'll need quality depth there soon, they have four 3* WR, two of which are both tall and have been offered by Pitt: 6'3" Eric Kumah (from VA) and 6'4" Divine Deablo (from NC) who also has offers from Ohio State and Florida.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

I think Zach Gilbert was down to them and us so this might help with him.

The coaches need to hit Maryland and Rutgers recruits/commits hard as well.

 

[thebadby2]

Now that Beamer is officially hanging it up at the end of this season, I have to think it's open season on VT's 2016 recruits, especially for someone as aggressive in recruiting as Narduzzi. I don't know how close Pitt is to any of these guys, but I see most of their verbals are from within Virginia, so I gotta think they'd all be hard to flip. All but 2 of the rest are from south of VA (2 each from NC, SC, GA, & 1 from FL). Here are the other 2:

3* QB Joshua Jackson (Michigan) -- We have a great & local QB recruit already, so we don't care about Jackson.
3* CB Myles Wolfolk (MD, near DC) -- He's 6-1, 180 (Narduzzi likes tall DB's, and Wolfolk is 2 inches taller than three of our starting DB's and 4 inches taller than the other), also offered by Clemson, BC, Illinois, SMU, etc.

There is one 4* among the verbals, and he's from Florida where we have some recruiting ties, and he just happens to be a CB:

4* CB Khalil Ladler (Florida), I see Pitt offered him (along with Alabama, Texas, etc.) 247 was predicting him to go to either VT or a big-name southern school (Miami, FSU, Georgia, or LSU). I'm guessing we have no shot with him.

If you're curious about their verbals along the OL since we could probably use another 1 there, they have two but both are 2*. If you're curious about their WR verbals since we'll need quality depth there soon, they have four 3* WR, two of which are both tall and have been offered by Pitt: 6'3" Eric Kumah (from VA) and 6'4" Divine Deablo (from NC) who also has offers from Ohio State and Florida.

We'd better care about the QB position. Very bad idea to put all your eggs in one QB a year. Just ask Brady Hoke that. We should be bringing in a couple in every class, like Harbaugh, Meyer and Kelly do, and let them compete. You end up with a legit starter and solid depth. I hope MacVittie isn't our only QB in the '16 class. He might end up being good, but he just as well might not. Same goes for DiNucci. I'd also like to see us recruiting some dual threat QBs, and Jackson is a pretty good one of those. Smart kid, trigger man on the top HS football team in Michigan, dad was RB coach at Michigan under Lloyd Carr. Dual threat QBs enable you to do so much more offensively. I really believe it's key to have a bunch of QBs competing all the time.